Quilting is becoming an increasingly important and integral part of my life. My creative outlet changes how I view the world around me, influences the activities I pursue with my family, and introduces me to new people whose life paths wouldn't ordinarily intersect mine. My life is much like my favorite types of quilts - scrappy and unconventional, full of interest and surprises, and with an underlying current of making do (and making something beautiful!) with what I have.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Quilt in a Day!

Two of my co-workers gave birth this week. I told myself I wasn't going to start anything new, that I had enough things going on without adding new quilts to the mix, but I couldn't help myself! Babies need quilts! Luckily, both new babies have short four letter names (Otto and Liam) so as I sat up sketching possible quick and easy "Welcome to the World" quilt ideas last night, what I did for one would easily work for the other, too. I've always wanted to make pineapples...

After lunch, I got started picking out fabric and sewing. Much of the squares came from my pre-cut scrap bins, and the background is a larger scrap from my neutral drawer. The size of that scrap pretty much dictated how big the quilt would be. I was thrilled to have very little of that fabric left - it will quickly be cut up and added to the scrap bins.

I'm moderately pleased with the final result. There seems to be too much white space on the bottom and in the middle, but I'm leaving it. It measures 40" square.

I hope to get the second one pieced by Wednesday, and get at least one quilted (by machine, yikes! but there's no time for hand quilting) this weekend. By next weekend I'd like to have them both ready for delivery. That's pretty ambitious for me, but I'm gonna give it a go.